The Lights Of Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami
and the lights stay on along Ocean Drive
the hotels glimmer and the luminosity runs a blocks-long parade of reds and limegreens and pinks and brightoranges and whites that jig like we all do jig
and the Atlantic laps the fringes of the shore of South Beach
and the sky is a different painting individual to each individual during each celestial sunrise,
the breeze a harpiscord in E major, fluttering skittering notes of zephyrs and siroccos and whispers and lost dreams
the Carlyle Hotel lit the hue of cornleaves gone gold
the Cardozo Hotel pageants crimson on the groundfloor, mauve for its storeys
and notions of art float the mind
and i stop to sup from a fountain by the sand
the faucet silver and cold
a slake through the millennia of all the waters of all the earth
the horizon over the Atlantic a wreath, a poesy, a jubilee of cerises, skyblues, of the fantasies retained;
and a dude, a homeless dude, bless him, approaches muttering tongues of the lost and hopeless and the hopeful and the hopefuelled
and many more people are psychotic than they realise
are cut off from themselves, cut off from who they have become - from this cutting;
and i run through the dawn, the precious sunrise, the incandescent starshowers
and see DecoDriveCigars
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and one idea of art that grips is:
FOR ETERNITY
or a
second
because like the known tides
you need all of time to scribe all of the poesy
or zero;
and the best thing Buk penned was when he went to Paris and said:
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